We believe over the next 12 months, billions of mobile messenger users will become prolific consumers of games and apps using HTML5 and messenger bots. This has the potential to be the most important and lucrative platform ever made available to developers and marketers -- it is orders of magnitude bigger in reach from the very start than the original Facebook canvas platform or even the Apple and Google mobile app stores.

It is hard to get a killer app in any space these days since the field is full of very talented developers.

I personally like the way Hype is going. If they were just a Game Development platform that would be too limiting to their growth.The fact that I can prototype projects or make real projects that sell is a bonus for me.

In the end I am a Hype Evangelist I guess. I see real potential in the application as it stands today and cannot wait for more updates.

As for Game Development alone…

I am a digital illustrator hybrid by training, and while that helps me with my projects.For those that are not illustrators there are several repositories for buying sprite graphics for use in Hype or other platforms.While we illustrators like to get freelance work too the repositories are great places to get your backgrounds, sprites, and platforms for example…

And one more recent article on iOS bots.If you did not take a look at my quick video snapshot of how to make an .apng animated sticker in Hype you can see the seed of ideas for message bots utilizing Hype as a creator platform.

So I am wrapping up my Swift Tutorial today on the Tapping game but had to share a preview of another tutorial.
I recently released my first sticker pack for iOS on the App Store and have been busily building new packs after the day job. I wanted to put in animated stickers and the only tutorials out there were for using Apple Motion. I wanted to use Hype. So I did.
Pretty easy: make a 2 second animation in hype on the stage format on one of the iMessage sticker platform size. 300x by 300px 4…

At betaworks, we are very excited about the opportunities conversational interfaces offer for building new kinds of products, services, distribution channels and user experiences. We have been investing and building in this space for quite some time now. Given our curiosity and experience in this space, we introduced Botcamp back in April this year and we were blown away by the quality and quantity of applications in this space. We received over 400 applications from early stage bot companies from all over the world. These developers are building conversational services in various verticals from enterprise, finance, and commerce to travel, analytics and news on different platforms. Some products were thin bots, some had taken a human-assisted approach and some were a result of over a year’s work on language analysis and machine learning in specific verticals.